[BlindTlk] [BlTlk] Advocating For Accessibility and Public Transportation

[Ericka]

I do know that there are a lot of places that are rule and have nothing. Absolutely nothing. Here in Wisconsin in the northern counties there is only medical transportation that will take you to a doctors appointment and back nothing else. And they come from maybe two counties away to pick you up. There’s absolutely nothing not even greyhound that links communities together.  It certainly makes for a blind person a challenge to get employed let alone getting to the grocery store. Thank goodness for instant card. Some grocery stores have started doing that type of thing on their own. I grew up in a community like that. Thankfully I was a kid and we were riding with family, neighbors or went walking as a group because I was a kid. Would never live there now. 

Ericka Nelson

> On Apr 26, 2022, at 1:08 PM, Judy Jones via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Our transportation is a county authority and takes accessibility seriously.
> 
> Are you saying you have no city or county mass transit? No cabs either?
> 
> Some places actually have all three. Have you investigated any private transit companies, they do exist.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Armando Vias via BlTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 10:40 AM
> To: BlueSkies via BlTlk <BlindTlk at nfbnet.org>
> CC: Armando Vias <armando at armandovias.com>
> Subject: [BlTlk] Advocating For Accessibility and Public Transportation
> 
> Hello everyone,
> Is anyone currently advocating for city accessibility and access to public transportation? In the city where I live in, there is a lack of public transportation, except Uber and Lyft.
> I actually started a petition to the Mayor of the city to make it accessible to the blind.
> https://change.org/WarnerRobinsAccessibility <https://change.org/WarnerRobinsAccessibility>
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
> Thank you.
> Sincerely,
> Armando Vias
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